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Months after she first went to the bridge, Mercy has been declared healed. However, life still isn’t all sunshine and roses, as evident when she’s stood up on a date. Yet there is someone waiting for her. Acedia, the leader of the Seven Sinners, wishes to personally congratulate Mercy on completing her healing journey. Then the darkness returns, ready to claim Mercy’s soul.

Jade Emerson didn't take up a job in private security to be paired with her worst nightmare. But that's what she gets when her boss sends her on assignments with former FBI agent Stella Moore, who is brash, forgetful...and dangerously hot. The rainy city of Portland has seen its share of female couples, but these two are thornier than the City of Roses. Can they overcome their dating pasts to save a woman in need? Or are they doomed to crash and burn...taking half the city with them?

Nobody knows how flip like Reese, a woman with nothing to prove to her family of real estate kings. When her mother's chronic affliction almost claims her life again, Reese knows that there's only one way to save her family. All she needs is a leave of absence from the corporate office in San Francisco and a toolbox full of lesbian stereotypes. Kimberly is a mild-mannered property manager who only wants to do her job and go home to her nosy parents...And fall in love, because a woman can only be untouched for so long!

Tove Fredriksson’s relationship with her wealthy extended family has always been fraught with favors, expectations, and the assumption that she remain a bachelorette for the rest of her life. But at 50 years old, Tove is ready to open her heart again—even after being out of practice for 20 years.

If experienced lifestyler Jewel Kane could have anything, it would be the perfect mistress - bold, commanding, and consuming her every breath. That’s why her friends introduce her to a niche matchmaking service that will make her forbidden dreams come true. Recently burned by the love of her life, entrepreneur Elena Zelenko has a heart harder than steel and colder than ice. Yet when she meets Jewel, she becomes instantly attached.

Heiress Victoria is about to embark on a world tour marketing her new advice book for lesbians. The public demands to meet her socially reclusive girlfriend, the woman of Victoria's inspiration. Too bad the girlfriend leaves her. For another woman. (In an RV....) Victoria's broken heart only sees two options: cancel the tour, or go alone. Her publisher, however, demands a woman on her arm. Any. Woman.

Ladylike heiress Audrey Weathersby is careful to never rock her family's boats. They don't even know about her ex-girlfriends or her fake IDs. But it's that fake ID that leads her to the hottest club in the city. While her friends tear up the dancefloor, however, Audrey meets the foil to her suppressed desires and curiosity. Dylan. The resident bad girl with an affinity for good girls like Audrey. What begins as a torrid fling soon transforms into something that opens Audrey's eyes to the life she's always wanted.

Ten years ago, Jess Mills had her life changed when she crossed paths with Shannon Parker, the most beautiful girl at their small liberal arts college. But what Jess assumed to be nothing more than a crush on a straight girl turned into the night of her dreams senior year. Then? Nothing. Shannon was gone before graduation. But Jess's love for astrology and divination is about to come in handy now that Shannon is determined to face her feelings and understand the whim of the universe.

When Noelle walked away from her adult entertainment gig, she never thought she’d return. Not with a comfortable corporate career in her life. Yet shortly after being laid off, she’s back to escorting the region’s wealthiest women…and growing more tired by the night.

Nyla Deng has been slinging drinks in Paradise, Taipei’s foremost nightclub, long enough to know the two main rules. The first is to always give patrons the best customer service in town. The second? Don’t. Fraternize. Simple enough for Nyla, who prefers to date “normal” girls instead of the clueless heiresses and cynical businesswomen who blow off steam in Paradise. Yet when has a drink with Terry Tsao, one of Shanghai’s most wayward heiresses, she quickly loses control and wakes up in Terry’s bed.

She's the richest woman in a city built on billions of dollars, and she's got the trophy girlfriend to prove it. Business and pleasure have a tendency to mix in the high-stakes world Adrienne Thomas breathes. As the co-owner of one of America's biggest corporations, the young billionaire doesn't have time to date...especially when her recent bisexual awakening leaves her more confused than her confidence likes to admit.

For the past few years, Stefani has been running her family’s Oregon winery, Bel Cielo Estate. The only thing missing from her picturesque countryside life is companionship. But with a great distaste for dating - and the city - Stefani approaches an international service to make her marital dreams come true. Enter Yulia, the alluring Russian woman with a penchant for heavy flirtation. She occasionally puts her money where her mouth is, too, driving Stefani wild with fantasies that this marriage might be more than convenience.

Raquel has a reputation around town. When she's not dominating the luxury real estate market, she's enjoying the company of yet another young girlfriend. Because there's nothing that sates the appetite of the neighborhood cougar like the firm flesh of her 20-something prey. But Raquel isn't immune to heartbreak. Her therapist believes she dates co-eds because she's attempting to recreate the great romance of her youth. The one that ended when her ex-girlfriend left her for someone else.

Singaporean heiress Genevieve Liu has searched the globe for love and has always found heartbreak. Nearing 40, she now focuses on her work, forgetting the kinky lifestyle that once brought her the greatest comfort.

The fifth story in the Sins of Mercy series. Worn down by harassment at work, Mercy makes a new friend who informs her she needs to get “angry” again - to feel the rage of a woman scorned who won’t take bull from anyone and knows how to get what she wants. But how is Mercy to ever feel the sweet release of rage again? As fate would have it, a goddess is waiting for her. Wrath, the deity of righteous anger, wants to whip Mercy back into hating shape.

Mercy has never considered herself special, which is why she can see right through her coworker’s “flirtations” for what they really are: harassment. After finally putting everyone in their place, Mercy heads home to find the last of the Seven Sinners in her room. Vanity, the Goddess of Self-Absorption, is ready to teach Mercy how to love herself. But Vanity isn’t very aggressive. If Mercy wants her life back, she’s going to have to take it. Again. And again.

For the first time in months, Mercy enjoys a day all to herself. After spoiling herself silly without a care in the world, she takes a wrong turn around the wrong alley and encounters Envy, a goddess who wants Mercy to hold a grudge. A plethora of bad memories awaits Mercy before she can continue on her healing journey, and nothing holds a candle to the very real issues in her place of work.

The sixth story in the Sins of Mercy series. In the grandest of miracles, Mercy is developing a social life. Thanks to her new friend, Mercy spends an evening out enjoying the company of energetic strangers who flirt with her, share their knowledge, and make her feel a little less alone. Yet Mercy shows she’s still on her way to healing when she’s unable to indulge in the same revelries as everyone else. Luckily there is yet another new friend waiting at home: Excess, the jolly goddess of many kitchen talents.

Seven months after meeting on a dating site, Abbie Greywood and Joyce Stewart are about to experience Christmas in their respective corners of Oregon. Yet when Abbie makes the hard decision to cancel Christmas with her family, she turns to Joyce, a woman with no family left. Is it time to take their relationship to the next level? Dare they meet in person when everyone is supposed to stay six feet away?

Nicole only agrees to marry Jenny to get her money, but what quickly unfolds is a genuine attraction that blindsides the formerly frigid Nicole and blinds Jenny to the logical solutions she desires.